I'm very new at this but wanted to thank the originator. After some frustrating hours trying things which didn't work I was able to follow the instructions here and my wife's computer now boots into KDE perfectly and with no problems. A real shame the distro couldn't have detected and done this out of the gate but hey it works! The Gedit threw me for a loop as it wasn't installed but I managed to figure that out and everything else went pretty smooth. A few questions about updates came up and I believe I responded "Y". I can't pretend to understand all I watched on the terminal screen either. Mostly just Thank you and kudos.